different between seasoned vs mellow

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?si?z?nd/

Verb

seasoned

1. simple past tense and past participle of season

Adjective

seasoned (comparative more seasoned, superlative most seasoned)

1. Experienced, especially in terms of a profession or a hobby

   • With only two fit centre-backs available, Tottenham boss Harry Redknapp employed young midfielder Jake Livermore at the back alongside Sebastien Bassong but Spurs struggled against a seasoned Champions League outfit, who beat Barcelona at the Nou Camp in 2009-10 and continually worked their way between the home defence to create some golden opportunities.

   • 2013, Zed A. Shaw, Learn Python the Hard Way: A Very Simple Introduction to the Terrifyingly Beautiful World of Computers and Code, ?ISBN, page 2

     While you do these exercises, typing each one in, you will make mistakes. It’s inevitable; even seasoned programmers make a few.

2. Of a food, often a liquid: containing seasonings
   • 1994, Leonard Jacobs, Cooking with Seitan: The Complete Vegetarian "wheat-meat" Cookbook, Penguin ?ISBN, page 28

     Pan-simmer baked seitan cutlets in Basic Broth (page 20) or other seasoned stock for 15 minutes.

   • 1996, Joan S. Todd, "Beyond Bread", Indianapolis Monthly, page 199

     Delicious, fresh bread — especially a killer herb-seasoned loaf — and a stellar creamy dill dressing elevate Brother Juniper's sandwiches beyond the routine.

   • 2013, Hallee Bridgeman, Hallee the Homemaker™, Fifty Shades of Gravy A Christian gets Saucy!: A Cookbook and a Parody, House of Bread Books™ ?ISBN, page 10

     A good definition for broth would be “seasoned stock.” With the possible addition of salt and other seasonings, fats, or thickening agents, broth is tasty and satisfying.

   • 2013, Jam Sanitchat, The Everything Thai Cookbook: Includes Red Curry with Pork and Pineapple, Green Papaya Salad, Salty and Sweet Chicken, Three-Flavored Fish, Coconut Rice, and Hundreds More!, F+W Media, Inc. ?ISBN, page 137

     Since these noodles are dried, they are often served with a side of seasoned stock.

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Anagrams

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English

Etymology

From Middle English melowe, melwe (“soft, sweet, juicy”), variant of Middle English merow, merwe (“soft, tender”), from Old English meru, mearu (“tender, soft, callow, delicate, frail”), from Proto-Germanic *marwaz (“mellow”), from Proto-Indo-European *mer(w)- (“to rub, pack”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian muur (“tender”), West Frisian murf (“tender”), Dutch murw (“tender”), German Low German möör (“tender”), German mürbe (“tender, soft”), Old Norse mör (“tender; aching”), Icelandic meyr (“tender”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?m?l??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?m?lo?/

• Rhymes: -?l??

Adjective

mellow (comparative mellower or more mellow, superlative mellowest or most mellow)

1. Soft or tender by reason of ripeness; having a tender pulp.

2. Easily worked or penetrated; not hard or rigid.

   • flowers of rank and mellow glebe

3. Not coarse, rough, or harsh; subdued, soft, rich, delicate; said of sound, color, flavor, style, etc.
   • 1820, William Wordsworth, The Valley of Dover

     the mellow horn

   • 1821, James Gates Percival, Prometheus

     The tender flush whose mellow stain imbues / Heaven with all freaks of light.

4. Well matured; softened by years; genial; jovial.
   • December 11, 1834, William Wordsworth, to Samuel Rogers Esq

     May health return to mellow age.

   • as merry and mellow an old bachelor as ever followed a hound

5. Relaxed; calm; easygoing; laid-back.
6. Warmed by liquor, slightly intoxicated, stoned, or high.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Addison to this entry?)

Synonyms

• (tender): See Thesaurus:soft
• (not hard): yielding; See also Thesaurus:soft
• (not harsh): merry
• (genial): convivial, gay, genial, jovial
• (relaxed): easy-breezy, casual
• (slightly intoxicated): See Thesaurus:drunk or Thesaurus:stoned

Derived terms

• mellowness

Translations

Noun

mellow (plural mellows)

1. A relaxed mood.

Derived terms

• harsh one's mellow

Verb

mellow (third-person singular simple present mellows, present participle mellowing, simple past and past participle mellowed)

1. (transitive) To make mellow; to relax or soften.
2. (intransitive) To become mellow.
   • 1592-94, William Shakespeare, Richard III, Act IV Scene 4

     So now prosperity begins to mellow
     And drop into the rotten mouth of death.

Derived terms

• mellow out
• unmellowed